A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Fianna Fáil support greater than poll indicates, says Minister
A Government Minister has described the weekend opinion poll reporting support for Fianna Fáil at just 18 per cent as disappointing, writes Harry McGee.
However, Minister of State for Children Barry Andrews said last night he did not believe support for Fianna Fáil would fall that low in an election situation.
The Sunday Business Post/Red C poll finds support for the party fell by 6 per cent from 24 per cent. Fine Gael’s support has risen one point to 34 per cent, while Labour has climbed 4 per cent to 27 per cent. Sinn Féin’s support fell one point to 9 per cent, while the Greens went from 3 per cent to 4 per cent.
FF TD backs merger with FG
A Fianna Fáil TD has written on the blog site Twitter that a merger between his party and Fine Gael "makes sense to me".
Chris Andrews, TD for Dublin South East, tweeted this weekend that Fine Gael was not making gains in the polls because people saw little difference between the two main political parties.
Mr Andrews later clarified his remarks by saying it was something that could not be a matter for discussion until after a general election. Mr Andrews was not available for comment last night.
Gardaí question circus owner
A circus owner and his wife have again been questioned by gardaí in relation to the appearance of a wallaby at a disco in Dublin. Alexander and Yvette Scholl have vehemently denied that the wallaby came from their circus where they have a pair of the animals.
They were questioned by detectives from Ronanstown Garda station on Saturday at the site of the Australian Super Circus Sydney near the Foxhunter pub in Lucan.
The couple were previously questioned by gardaí last week.